Category Archives: variant reading

G sharp or G? About a bass trill in Schubert’s A-flat-major Impromptu D 935, No. 2

Posted on September 13, 2021 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

Franz Schubert‘s piano music is almost an infinitely magical wonderland. … Continue reading →

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‘Finished in Vysoká at a nice little hour’– new finds in Dvořák’s A-major piano quintet op. 81

Posted on March 15, 2021 by Dominik Rahmer

The piano quintet is, so to speak, in the “super … Continue reading →

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Schumann revisited – about an odd accidental in the Fantasiestücke, op. 73

Posted on May 27, 2019 by Dominik Rahmer

We report as a rule in our blog posts on … Continue reading →

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Rachmaninoff revises Rachmaninoff. On the two versions of the Second Piano Sonata op. 36

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Dominik Rahmer

In my last blog posting I went into the genesis … Continue reading →

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Debussy in Urtext – Part 4: Autograph corrections in chamber-music works

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Peter Jost

It goes without saying that the focus would be on … Continue reading →

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Deluxe for the continuo group – Part II: Telemann

Posted on March 13, 2017 by Norbert Müllemann

It was nearly three years ago, on 17 February 2014, … Continue reading →

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France sets the tone – new Urtext editions in the “blue jersey”

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Dominik Rahmer

It isn’t only with the European Football Championship 2016 that … Continue reading →

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A “bad apple” in Camille Saint-Saëns’ 2nd cello sonata?

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Peter Jost

Saint-Saëns was likely far from the “genius thinking” of romanticism. … Continue reading →

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“… more or less at the most extreme limit of what can be achieved on the piano”: Busoni arranges Bach

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Norbert Müllemann

The second edition naming the two composers, Bach · Busoni, … Continue reading →

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A peek through the keyhole – Bartók’s “Allegro barbaro” as forerunner of the complete edition

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Annette Oppermann

With Béla Bartók, we have added a new composer to … Continue reading →

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